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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Charlie Hebdo's humor upsets Turkish Islamists - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Charlie Hebdo's humor upsets Turkish Islamists

On Jan. 11, when Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu marched alongside world leaders in Paris to honor the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, back in Turkey, members of the Aczimendi religious order performed funereal prayers to honor the perpetrators of the attacks. Other religious groups tweeted public invitations to prayer sessions for the perpetrators. Referred to as the “Kouachi brothers,” these men were not terrorists in the eyes of several religious sects in Turkey.

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